To the editor: Each throughout the pandemic and once more extra not too long ago whereas recuperating from surgical procedure, I’ve needed to depend on supply service for my groceries, which resulted in my accruing of these thick plastic luggage. (“Sure, California should ban plastic grocery luggage — once more,” editorial, Aug. 5)
As your editorial appropriately factors out, I couldn’t simply toss them into the recycling bin (it will be pointless for me to take action), and I couldn’t reuse them on the retailer, as a result of supply necessitates new luggage for each order.
What I did with the pandemic-era luggage — and what I’ll do with my newest inventory as soon as I’m out and about once more — is donate them to an area meals financial institution. They’re all the time in want of luggage, and those that rely on meals banks are in all probability extra more likely to reuse them many occasions earlier than they change into unusable (such is the mindset of anybody compelled to make do with fewer sources).
I might urge everybody who has a pile of those thick plastic luggage to do likewise. Recycling is vital, and so is reusing, however too usually we overlook about repurposing.
Kymberleigh Richards, Van Nuys
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To the editor: Thanks for highlighting the absurdity of our current insurance policies on “recyclable plastic luggage.”
How did the minor element that the brand new, thicker luggage are usually not in actual fact recyclable ever get neglected by the lawmakers who enacted California’s ban in 2016? Add to that the truth that shoppers are charged 10 cents per bag, which we have been led to consider went to assist recycling efforts. As a substitute, the cash is revenue for the sellers.
It’s incompetence or collusion, with the one winners being the plastic producers and the margin-starved grocery shops. Hold the highlight vibrant on this drawback.
Karen Galas, Palos Verdes Estates
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To the editor: California handed a single-use plastic grocery bag ban in 2016, however loopholes have wasted eight years of environmental progress. Plastic luggage nonetheless dangerously float round our highways on windy days, on our seashores and in every single place else.
We’d like the California Legislature to move Meeting Invoice 2236 and Senate Invoice 1053, an identical payments that may require shops to offer solely paper luggage made out of a minimal of fifty% recycled materials. We handed that 2016 single-use plastic bag ban for good motive, however the state nonetheless wants to deal with sustainability points.
Let’s hope our lawmakers transfer ahead with our environmental requirements that preserve California lovely and our landfills much less clogged.
Jonathan Gentle, Laguna Niguel
